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CPL Courses

The enforcement of Competition Law and its pervasive presence across sectors and business functions is creating a high demand for competition compliance. This has led CIRC to collaborate to offer these courses on Competition Policy and Law (CPL). CPL courses are specially designed for practitioners, working professionals and students of Law, Business Management, Economics, Chartered Accountancy (CA) and Company Secretaryship (CS), to acquire deep understanding and knowledge of competition law and related issues.

CIRC Certificate Course on Competition Policy and Law

Weekend classes are held in Delhi – but not mandatory. Course material will be given by hand or post.

The Certificate Course in Competition Policy and Law is a fundamental course dealing primarily with markets and business laws, competition policy and law, in general, and the Competition Act, 2002 as amended in detail. The certificate course also covers fundamentals of Economics essential for studying competition law.

The Diploma Course in Competition Policy and Law is an advanced course dealing, in detail, with topics related to abuse of dominance, anti-competitive agreements, and regulation of combination across select jurisdictions.. The participants of Diploma course are exposed to emerging issues such as: interface between IPRs and competition law, cross border issues, and issues related to business strategy.

The courses, duly accredited by the National Law University, Delhi, are designed to deliver knowledge and skills relating to Competition Policy and Law to the participants and open up new employment opportunities in Competition Authorities, Regulatory Bodies, Law Firms, Businesses, Research Bodies, etc.

Intensive teaching methodology comprising classroom interactions, lectures, case studies, structured group discussions, panel discussions and presentations from experts in the field is employed and sessions are designed in a way to facilitate maximum interaction between participants and resource persons. Maximum usage of real-life cases has been referred in the modules. In addition, participants will be given group exercise and assignments to apply the learnt skills.

Study material will be provided to all the participants in hard copies including course material, lecturer’s presentations, case studies and other additional material on ongoing basis.

Apart from the Study material and presentation related to the course modules, weekly newsletters are sent to the participants to keep them abreast of the recent trends and developments in the field.

These Courses on Competition Policy and Law are specially designed to equip participants with the knowledge required for:

• Application of economic tools and techniques in competition analysis
• Analytical skills to comprehend issues relating to business strategy and competition policy & law
• Understanding of substantive issues relating to competition laws of India and other jurisdictions.
• Understanding of emerging issues emanating from Intellectual Property Laws, Cross-borderissues, and their interface with competition laws.

The following criteria will be followed while admitting participants to both the courses:

Overseas candidates applying for either Certificate or Diploma Course should have graduated from a recognized university. Regarding the recognition status of the foreign university, the student should produce the relevant document/declaration along with his application.

PROGRAMME

Certificate Course in Competition Policy and Law

Diploma Course in Competition Policy and Law

ELIGIBILITY

Applicant must have completed 10+2 from any recognised board.

Graduation in any discipline from a recognised University; or Students in final year of Graduation; or Students who have completed three years of graduation programme of five year integrated programme

Overseas applicants are required to pay their fee through wire transfer. Indian Applicants need to send Demand Drafts/Cheques of the fee amount in favor of “National Law University, Delhi” payable at New Delhi with following options:

For Admission in Certificate Course:

Participants are required to pay the entire amount of INR 15,000 at the time of admission.*

For Admission in Diploma Course:

Participants are required to pay the entire amount of INR. 25,000 at the time of admission.**Payment of Fee in installment is subject to prior consultation and approval from CIRC.

Fee waiver of 30% in form of refund will be provided to NLUD students applying for these courses every intake in the Course. The refund shall be given after successful completion of the course. The decision regarding the selection of students for the fee waiver will be taken jointly by CIRC and NLUD on need cum merit basis.
For full-time staff members of CIRC and NLUD in every intake, scholarships amounting to 30% fee waiver to each student in form of refund after successful completion of the course.

Registration for the courses:The registration for the courses has commenced for May 2017 Batch. The registration and admission to the courses shall be subject to the candidate’s fulfilling the eligibility norms and the approval of CIRC and NLUD.#

Application Procedure: Applicants can download the application form from www.circ.in/cpl/application_form or contact CIRC, New Delhi for getting it. Applications complete in all respects can be submitted either in person or sent by post, to CIRC or NLUD.

1.The Certificate/Diploma Courses in Competition Policy & Law (hereinafter “the courses”) offered here are accredited to National Law University (NLU), Delhi and are managed and run by both NLU Delhi and CUTS Institute for Regulation & Competition (CIRC).

2.Admission of a participant to either course shall be subject to the participant fulfilling the eligibility norms as given over the website/introductory material published by NLU, Delhi or CIRC. Eligibility norms for Indian and foreign candidates may differ, and these norms are considered read and well understood by the candidate while applying for the course.

3.The application procedure laid down for the courses shoud be followed by every applicant and no deviation from it unless approved by both the institutions shall be allowed.

4.Registrations for these courses shall be announced twice every year and dates for such announcement will be as mutually decided by NLU, Delhi and CIRC from time to time. Admission deadlines to these courses, after an announcement has been made may be extended if required by a consensual decision of both institutions.

5.After succesful completion of the Certificate Course, if a participant wishes to pursue Diploma Course, the participant shall be exempted from first four modules. Thus, such participants shall be able to complete their Diploma in next six months.

6.If a Diploma participant wishes to terminate his/her engagement in the course after succesful completion of the first four modules, he/she shall be eligible to the award of a Certificate in Competition Policy and Law, provided he/she has intimated this in writing to CIRC two months before the exams for certificate course are conducted.

7.Examination process and course schedule has to be strictly adhered to, by the students. CIRC/NLUD would not permit any exceptions or deviations.

8.The fee structure for the two courses shall be available on the website of both institutions and also in introductory material published for promotion of these courses. The fee structure for these courses may differ for Indian and Foreign candidates and same shall be subject to change from time to time. Fee for these courses is to be paid by Demand Drafts or cheques drawn in favor of ‘National Law University, Delhi’ payable at Delhi. Applicants shall send these demand drafts/cheques by speed post to the address of either of the institutions before the deadline of applications. An applicant opting to pay their course fee in installment shall have to convey the same in advance to CIRC.

9.After the confirmation of admission, participants will be given extensive study material prepared for the respective courses in the orientation session, which will be held immediately after admission process is completed dates of which shall be informed to candidates by CIRC.

10.Regualr classroom sessions shall be held with prior information to the participants to have interaction with subject espoerts. The venue,date and time for these classes shall be mutually decided by both the institutions and a tentative schedule shall be shared with the participants of a batch thereafter.Appointment of experts/resource persons for either course shall be subject to discretion of the organiser of these classes and the list of such experts given over the website/promotion material shall not be considered exhaustive.

11.Participants are supposed to qualify all exams for the succesfull completion of their course, which in case of a certificate course are 4 exams + 4 assignments and for a diploma course are 8 exams + 8 assignments. The written exam structure may include objective questions, subjective questions, assignments, case studies etc and shall be appeared for by every candidate at a given venue.

12.The minimum grade for successful completion of the course shall be ‘C’ and in case a participant gets a ‘F’ grade due to non-appearance in exam or obtaining less than 50 marks out of 100, he/she will have to retake the exam in the next schedule. In all, a participant will have ‘three’ consecutive opportunities to secure at least a ‘C’ grade in all exams for all modules. Of these opportunities, first re-sit examination fee shall be INR 1000, and for second and third chance the re-sit exam fee would be INR 2000 and INR 3000 respectively. Examinations for these courses are conducted bi-annually. If a candidate fails to appear for/clear all exams for his/her course within these timelines (2yrs from registration), his/her registration would expire.The maximum duration to complete the course is decided in consensus with both the institutions and is subject to change from time to time.

13.After the succesfull completion of the examination, participants shall be awarded a certificate. NLU, Delhi and CIRC will jointly award the certificates in both the courses.

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Participants shall be graded as per their scores in the following manner:

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CIRC offers educational and training programmes in the fields of competition law and sustainable infrastructure. It aims to facilitate research, enhance understanding and explore inter-disciplinary linkages among the identified subjects.